When an employer wants to get additional protection against what former employees might do with knowledge and experienced gained while employed for that employer, the employer might attempt to get its employees to enter into restrictive covenants. An employer can accomplish this Continue reading →

Normally, if you enter into an agreement with another person to do or not do something, a court will enforce that agreement if you violate it, with the assumption that you got some kind of fair exchange in the agreement. So, without knowing anything else, you would think that a court would enforce a restrictive covenant. But that is not necessarily the case Continue reading →

Although there is no law preventing employers from defining other types of restrictive covenants, on this webpage, we’ll discuss only two types: the covenant not to compete (“non-compete”) and the covenant not to solicit (“non-solicitation” provisions).